Word: conrade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew what was in the letter before I even opened it," said Phillip Conrad, 17, a stocky, crew-cut senior who had earned seven athletic letters at St. Clair High School, north of Detroit. "It was thin. If it's an acceptance, it's thick. If it's a rejection, it's just one sheet...
Later Casement investigated conditions on the rubber plantations of the Putumayo Valley in Peru and found horrors of mutilation and murder even more shocking than those of the Congo. He was a man of passionate idealism and undoubted courage. Joseph Conrad thought him "a limpid personality" with "a touch of the conquistador in him." After Casement resigned from the consular service in 1913, he was caught up in Ireland's seething demand for home rule, denouncing Britain as the "bitch and harlot of the North...
Lord Jim is the story of a blue-eyed, boyish sailor whose dreams of glory are lost at sea. Joseph Conrad's intricate turn-of-the-century novel expands a solitary act of cowardice into a moot question about every man's moral identity. As chief mate of the Patna, a leaky old steamer with some 800 Moslem pilgrims aboard, Jim joins his panicky crew in abandoning ship at the threat of a gale, only to meet disgrace when the doomed tub rides it out unattended. Thereafter Conrad's hero drags the ghost of his honor through...
...Toole) as a rather winsome, late Victorian Walter Mitty. A grand kid, but accident-prone. On a giant split screen, Jim visualizes such wild exploits as saving his captain from buccaneers. And the audience is warned by this literalism that Writer Brooks in tends to steer through Conrad's prose with stopovers in all the wrong places...
Such adventures might rival an old Tarzan serial, except for old Conrad's pesky profundity. Occasionally, Brooks backtracks to gather up a few platitudes about fate, courage and honor, and asks his actors to breathe life into them. The burden falls to O'Toole, whose best lines are in his clean-cut profile and whose mannerisms parody his flashy style in Lawrence of Arabia and Becket. Each time his manhood is tested, O'Toole's eyes fill with tears and a hand drifts to his throat as if to ward off a fainting spell. Everything...